JAPANESE ONLY: The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan

If you saw signs up in public places saying "No Coloreds", what would you do? See them as relics of a bygone era, a la US Segregation or South African Apartheid? Not in Japan, where even today "Japanese Only" signs, excluding people who look "foreign", may be found nationwide, thanks to fear and opportunism arising from Japan's internationalization and economic decline.

JAPANESE ONLY is the definitive account of the Otaru Onsens Case, where public bathhouses in Otaru City, Hokkaido, put up "...